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Derek Guthrie was one of two founders of Chicago's New Art Examiner in 1973 and he is giving a talk Sunday at 2 PM at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. It's called Defilement; A Story of the Art World.
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Defilement ariseth not from temptation as active upon the mind, but from temptation as admitted with consent: so far as it consents, whether by surprisal or long solicitations, so far it is defiled.
Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved 1616-1683 1965
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They appear to have study'd all the _Arts_ of an easie _Defilement_, and to have left out no _Colours_ that were likely to _Stain_.
A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous
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= (2) Protection of Women and Girls from Defilement =
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents 1926
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Defilement intrudes even on our holy things now, whereas God's service ought to be undefiled. that fadeth not away -- Contrast 1Pe 1: 24.
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Defilement was everywhere; in the piazza, in nooks and corners, strewing the miserable lanes from side to side, the refuse of every day, and of accumulated ages.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Defilement was everywhere; in the piazza, in nooks and corners, strewing the miserable lanes from side to side, the refuse of every day, and of accumulated ages.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Danger of Defilement; but a meer SPECTATOR may look into the Bottom, and come off without partaking in the Guilt.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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The Somatic Defilement, notably for the "leaving nothing to the imagination" track
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Defilement of the Koran is not torture (if it was, then Maplethorpe would also have been a criminal against humanity, but we don't see it that way in a liberal society).
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